A yet to be identified New York Times reporter was formally reprimanded by the paper for calling the First Lady a “hooker” at New York Fashion Week event Saturday night.

According to Page Six, a supermodel sitting next to this nameless reporter “spilled the beans” and railed against the “slut-shaming” of Melania:

Supermodel Emily Ratajkowski, who was seated next to the reporter during the event on Sunday, had spilled the beans on Twitter.

“Sat next to a journalist from the NYT last night who told me ‘Melania is a hooker,’” Ratajkowski tweeted Monday morning.

The 25-year-old stunner, a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, decried what she called the “slut-shaming” of the first lady, a former model herself.

“Whatever your politics it’s crucial to call this out for what it is: slut shaming. I don’t care about her nudes or sexual history and no one should,” she wrote.

In a statement published in Politico, the NYT called this unidentified reporter’s remarks, “completely inappropriate.”

“At a party last night, a Times reporter who does not cover Washington or politics, referred to an unfounded rumor regarding Melania Trump,” a Times spokesperson said in a statement to POLITICO. “The comment was not intended to be public, but it was nonetheless completely inappropriate and should not have occurred. Editors have talked to the reporter in question about the lapse.”

So who was the reporter?

Sat next to a journalist from the NYT last night who told me "Melania is a hooker." Whatever your politics it's crucial to call this out for

It was a shock on arriving at the New York Times in 2004, as the paper’s movie editor, to realize that its editorial dynamic was essentially the reverse. By and large, talented reporters scrambled to match stories with what internally was often called “the narrative.”

It turns out that the J Jonah Jameson character of the Spiderman comics, who was a newspaper editor that wanted the stories to fit his prejudices, facts be damned, was patterned after real life.

It wasn’t just the Daily Mail that was fighting a defamation lawsuit. This incredibly stupid NYT reporter should have known that just a week ago, the blogger in Maryland who had published these accusations was forced to pay a financial settlement and state publicly on his site that there was no evidence for any of these accusations, and that he knew there was no evidence for them when he put the story online.

heheh – in other news, the rent-seeking Sioux Indians in North Dakota just lost again.

There will be dozens (if not more) photos of the event with the model in attendance. Plus only certain NYT “journalists” and their fellow journalist travelers would have been issued tickets and then gone to that event.

That’s funny, I had missed that about Beck. It’s always interesting to see how some men cannot handle the presence of a beautiful woman who’s completely confident in her own sexuality. A woman like that drives most muslims completely insane (not that it’s a long trip for them), and apparently Beck, too.